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Just after Finextra publish my thought piece on the future method of authentication being RFID style chip implants inside humans, which I’ve blogged about before btw as I do truly believe it will happen, the Los Angeles Times broke the news that the Terminator’s State of California doesn’t like my vision and have banned RFID…

Just after Finextra publish my thought piece on the future method of authentication being RFID style chip implants inside humans, which I’ve blogged about before btw as I do truly believe it will happen, the Los Angeles Times broke the news that the Terminator’s State of California doesn’t like my vision and have banned RFID…

We talk about pandemics as a result of bird flu and other concerns.  Luckily, we haven’t had one yet but, you never know.  After all, looking around the fellow inhabitants of the world’s subway systems, H G Wells had it right when he referred to morlocks living underground and who knows what you might catch…

We talk about pandemics as a result of bird flu and other concerns.  Luckily, we haven’t had one yet but, you never know.  After all, looking around the fellow inhabitants of the world’s subway systems, H G Wells had it right when he referred to morlocks living underground and who knows what you might catch…

We talk about pandemics as a result of bird flu and other concerns.  Luckily, we haven’t had one yet but, you never know.  After all, looking around the fellow inhabitants of the world’s subway systems, H G Wells had it right when he referred to morlocks living underground and who knows what you might catch…

I was intrigued to see the lack of headlines about American Express this month, especially as they were fined $65 million by the US Department of Justice the other day.  I only caught the news hidden in a US notice about banking matters.  Although it did get a little coverage in America, it wasn’t in…

I was intrigued to see the lack of headlines about American Express this month, especially as they were fined $65 million by the US Department of Justice the other day.  I only caught the news hidden in a US notice about banking matters.  Although it did get a little coverage in America, it wasn’t in…

New research finds that 41% of Facebook users are happy to reveal all to potential identity thieves.  The researchers found this out by creating a fabricated Facebook profile before sending out friend requests to people chosen at random from around the world.  The fabricated character is one Freddi Staur, an anagram of ID Fraudster.  Freddi…

New research finds that 41% of Facebook users are happy to reveal all to potential identity thieves.  The researchers found this out by creating a fabricated Facebook profile before sending out friend requests to people chosen at random from around the world.  The fabricated character is one Freddi Staur, an anagram of ID Fraudster.  Freddi…

Interesting research that was blasted across the UK press yesterday. The research came from the recently IPO’d website moneysupermarket.com, which reckons that we could be paying an average of £300 a year in current account charges if the UK’s free banking system is changed to a pay-as-you-go fee structure. The research is based upon the…